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February 14 | workshop 7
workshop 7 at features new and in-process sound and music by John Niekrasz, Gilly Hanner, and ari albertson. workshop is a series for musicians and artists working in sound to present new and in-progress works and compositions.
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2026 | Winter Events
Performance, music, movies, and more!
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Beginning Jan. 18 | Winter Fieldwork
Artists from all disciplines are welcome! Join Katherine Longstreth for a 6 week Fieldwork group. Learn about your work, develop your feedback skills, and build creative community.S Fieldwork feedback is supportive, honest and non-directorial.
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Alembic Parent Residency 2026 | Visiting Artist Call
PWNW || LAD invites one local and one visiting parent artist whose work engages a strong movement, body or dance-based component, to apply for one of our 2025 Alembic Parent Residencies providing studio time and financial support. DEADLINE Jan. 20. 2024
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Support creation, experimentation, and community in 2026!
Thank you for participating in PWNW’s 25th anniversary year—especially the three-day love fest in August that was 25 Hours for 25 Years. Beyond that incredible weekend, our jam-packed 2025 included so much. In 2026 we will bring you more!
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January 16–17 & 23–24 | Impact Play | Genderbomb
Genderbomb’s “Impact Play” is a soiree combining kink and storytelling live onstage. Enter our salon, sample crudités from a human platter, and settle in for an evening of bondage, cannibalism, living dolls, and, of course, impact play!
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December 20 | Tom’s Movie Night
Tom DeBeauchamp would most cordially like to invite you to a free screening of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker at Performance Works Northwest on December 20th, 2025. Doors open at 4pm, and we’ll probably start the show around 4:15, maybe a bit afterward. There will be seltzers for drinking and likely some popcorn for eating, chairs and…
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December 20 | Shake & Sing with Sadie Leigh & Emma Pauline
shake + sing is a low stakes movement and voice workshop and gathering. participants come together for a physical, guided shaking warm up, followed by group singing involving rhythm and rounds. if you’ve ever moved your body in any way or ever made any sounds with your mouth, this offering is for you!! also, sadie…
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December 6 | MY DAY two decades | Nate Orton, James Yeary, Chris Ashby
Please join us on December 6 at Performance Works NW as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nate Orton’s ongoing MY DAY series! MY DAY was established in 2005 by visual artist Nate Orton with poets Chris Ashby and James Yeary and is an ongoing self-published documentation of the Northwest.
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November 7–9 | real things: an evening of deep play ritual and practice | PDX Deep Play Performance Troupe
Join the PDX Deep Play Performance Troupe for an evening of deep play ritual & practice as we collectively explore the borderlands between order and chaos, art and therapy, sense and nonsense, performer and audience, buoyancy and heaviness, risk and safety. At its core, the piece weaves together a series of structured improvisational games and ceremonies…
Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance 